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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: My Canon F1 eats batteries. Any idea why?
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Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 23:21:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 23 23:21:44 1985
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I have a Canon New F1 with a power winder. About 2 months ago it developed
the nasty habit of burning out its batteries about 1 day after I put them
in. Since the 6V lithium battery costs $5, it is impractical to just install
a new battery every day as I eat my breakfast.

One of these days I will get around to taking it in to a dealer for repair,
but they will just send it off to Canon and I won't get it back for weeks,
and then Canon will probably tell me it's something stupid that I was doing
that I forgot about. Has anybody else ever seen this problem?

[For you long distance diagnosticians, I have checked to make sure that the
 metering system is not turned on, and that the light is not turned on,
 and I have tried it both with and without the power winder connected.
 It's nothing obvious.]
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA